Free and open to all who wish to attend, but membership is only $10/year.
Fran Finnegan of Finnegan O'Malley & Company Inc. will speak about SEC Info, a Securities and Exchange Commission EDGAR database service for sophisticated business-information users and securities-industry professionals. Fran will describe how he created the largest database on the Web, containing over 35 million pages and 600 million links.
He will talk about developing and managing one of the largest Windows NT cluster web sites (providing stock market data). This site is a high performance NT installation that is of some significance.
Fran will delve into topics such as: what's in the database, who's the target market, and what's the business plan; the architecture that parses SEC filings and creates 30,000 new pages each day; languages used (C++, SQL, ASP, JScript, VBScript, JavaScript, SGML, HTML, HTTP); operating system (Windows NT) bugs he had to code around; database server (SQL Server) bugs and performance issues; browser bugs/limitations and resulting user-interface issues; user tracking, session management, and usage logging; and hardware and network topology (Web, database and mail servers).
Fran Finnegan is Chairman and CEO of Finnegan O'Malley & Company Inc., a San Francisco-based software development company providing consulting and contract programming services exclusively for Windows since 1986. Finnegan O'Malley has performed Windows-related work for American Airlines, Borland International, Central Point Software (acquired by Symantec), Financial Proformas (acquired by Moody's), First Boston Corporation, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NEC Technologies, Sybase, Charles Schwab & Co., Upjohn, Wells Fargo Bank, Xerox PARC and Ziff-Davis, among others.
At the request of Microsoft, Finnegan O'Malley developed the Windows 95 Paint accessory (Start => Programs => Accessories => Paint) and Fran personally wrote all of the Windows 95 and NT print-related Common Dialogs (any application that uses the Common Dialogs => File => Page Setup; the "Greeked" uses software written by Fran Finnegan)
Fran has been a Contributing Editor of Microsoft Systems Journal (during 1990-95, he was the author of the highly-technical "Windows Q&A" column) and has written on Windows for PC Magazine (he was the last author of the "Windows" column) and Windows Magazine.
He has also been Vice President of Silicon Valley's Software Entrepreneurs' Forum and has, since 1991, run its Windows Special Interest Group (SEF WinSIG), the largest Windows developers' group in the world with over 1,000 members.
He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame (B.B.A.) and University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.)
Here is a map to HP.